The Opera Tattler
Reviews of Performances and their Audiences
Month: March 2012
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* Notes * A new production of Rinaldo (Act II, Scene 3 pictured left, photograph by Dan Rest/Lyric Opera of Chicago) concludes Lyric Opera of Chicago's 2011-2012 season. The Sunday matinée performance was nothing if not entertaining. Director Francisco Negrin created his own little circus within Handel's music, an internally consistent world whose elements all…
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September 15- October 6 2012: Anna BolenaSeptember 20- October 15 2012: Don GiovanniSeptember 23 2012: Nathan Gunn ConcertDecember 21-23 2012: Hansel and GretelMarch 2-23 2013: Manon LescautMarch 9-24 2013: NormaApril 8 2013: Diana Damrau ConcertMay 4-26 2013: Show Boat The 2012-2013 season at WNO was announced today. Sondra Radvanovsky sings the title role of Anna…
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September 5-8 2012: Bychkov conducts Wagner, Bruch, Tchaikovsky; Pinchas Zuckerman, violin September 12-15 2012: Bychkov conducts Shostakovich's 7th September 19 2012: Opening Gala: MTT conducts Berlioz, Chausson, Saint-Saëns, Ravel; Joshua Bell, violin September 20-23 2012: MTT conducts Berlioz, Chausson, Saint-Saëns, Ravel; Alina Pogostkina, violin September 27-30 2012: MTT conducts Samuel Carl Adams, Mahler October 4-6…
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* Notes * Last weekend Jonathan Nott (pictured left, photograph by Thomas Müller) conducted Chicago Symphony Orchestra in a program of Schoenberg's Piano Concerto and Mahler's Das Lied von der Erde. The concert started with the former, the soloist being Pierre-Laurent Aimard, who played with clarity. The orchestra sounded neat and together. Schoenberg's music tends to…
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* Notes * A new production of Show Boat (Act I, Scene 1 pictured left, photograph by Robert Kusel/Lyric Opera of Chicago) opened at Lyric Opera of Chicago last month. The Friday matinée performance was an utter delight from top to bottom. Director Francesca Zambello is at her best in this co-production with Lyric, San…
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Last night, nine of ten Adler Fellows for 2012 were interviewed by Director of Music Administration Kip Cranna, San Francisco Opera Center Director of Musical Studies Mark Morash, and Director of Artistic Adminstration Gregory Henkel, at Cowell Theater at Fort Mason. We learnt that pianist and apprentice coach David Hanlon was off to Houston to…
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